Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Edith Hall is Professor of Classics at the University of Durham and Consultant Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama in Oxford, UK. She has published more than thirty volumes on ancient Greek and Roman literature and their reception and has been a judge of the Stephen Spender prize for literary translation and the Society for Theatre Research Book of the Year.
Edith Hall is Professor of Classics at the University of Durham and Consultant Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama in Oxford, UK. Her books on ancient Greek culture and its reception include The Return of Ulysses (2008), Greek Tragedy (2010), Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris (2013) and Introducing the Ancient Greeks (2015).
[Hall’s] shared interests and wide-ranging knowledge of the classical world and its reception, besides her sympathetic understanding of Harrison’s outlook, make this a most engaging study.
The Classical Review
Hall’s book is ... engaging and erudite.
The Scottish Left Review
<i>Tony Harrison</i> is a persuasive, timely, important study which goes right to the top of any reading list of Harrison scholarship and joins the canon of class-based classical reception studies.
Translation and Literature
This is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets in England and the world. It argues that his unique and politically radical classicism is inextricable from his core notion that poetry should be a public property in which communal problems are shared and crystallised, and that the poet has a responsibility to speak in a public voice about collective and political concerns. Enriched by Edith Hall’s longstanding friendship with Harrison and involvement with his most recent drama, inspired by Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris, it also asserts that his greatest innovations in both form and style have been direct results of his intense engagements with individual works of ancient literature and his belief that the ancient Greek poetic imagination was inherently radical.
Tony Harrison's large body of work, for which he has won several major and international prizes, and which features on the UK National Curriculum, ranges widely across long and short poems, plays, translations and film poems. Having studied Classics at Grammar School and University and having translated ancient poets from Aeschylus to Martial and Palladas, Harrison has been immersed in the myths, history, literary forms and authorial voices of Mediterranean antiquity for his entire working life and his classical interests are reflected in every poetic genre he has essayed, from epigrams and sonnets to original stage plays, translations of Greek drama and Racine, to his experimental and harrowing film poems, where he has pioneered the welding of tightly cut video materials to tightly phrased verse forms. This volume explores the full breadth of his oeuvre, offering an insightful new perspective on a writer who has played an important part in shaping our contemporary literary landscape.
Acknowledgements
Timeline of Tony Harrison’s Classics-Informed Works
1 ‘Models of eloquence’: Radical Classicism
2 ‘Stone bodies’: Statuary in The Loiners (1970) and Palladas (1975)
3 ‘Frontiers of Appetite’: Phaedra Britannica (1975)
4 ‘Shaggermemnon’: Aeschylus’ Oresteia and Continuous (1981)
5 ‘All the versuses of life’: ‘v.’ and Medea: A Sex-War Opera (1985)
6 ‘Bookworm excreta’: The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus (1988) and Other Plays and Poems
7 ‘End to end in technicolour’: Prometheus (1998) and Other Films
8 ‘Witnessed horror’: Fram (2008) and Harrison’s Euripides
9 ‘Surviving the slopes of Parnassus’: ‘Polygons’ (2015) and Other Poems
Notes
Bibliography
Index
SERIES EDITOR: Laura Jansen, Associate Professor in Classics & Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol, UK.
Each book in this groundbreaking new series considers the influence of antiquity on a single writer from the twentieth century. From Woolf to Walcott and Fellini to Foucault, the modalities and texture of this modern encounter with antiquity are explored in the works of authors recognized for their global impact on modern fiction, poetry, art, philosophy and socio-politics.
A distinctive feature of twentieth-century writing is the tendency to break with tradition and embrace the new sensibilities of the time. Yet the period continues to maintain a fluid dialogue with the Greco-Roman past, drawing on its rich cultural legacy and thought, even within the most radical movements that ostentatiously questioned and rejected that past. Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing approaches this dialogue from two interrelated perspectives: it asks how modern authors’ appeal to the classical past opens up new readings of their oeuvres and contexts, and it considers how this process in turn renders new insights into the classical world. This two-way perspective offers dynamic and interdisciplinary discussions for readers of Classics and modern literary tradition.
Fellini’s Eternal Rome by Alessandro Carrera received the 2019 Flaiano Prize in the category Italian Studies
Editorial board
Prof. Richard Armstrong (University of Houston)
Prof. Francisco Barrenechea (University of Maryland)
Prof. Shane Butler (Johns Hopkins University)
Prof. Paul A. Cartledge (Cambridge University)
Prof. Moira Fradinger (Yale University)
Prof. Francisco García Jurado (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Prof. Barbara Goff (University of Reading)
Prof. Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)
Dr. Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford)
Prof. Vassilis Lambropoulos (University of Michigan)
Dr. Pantelis Michelakis (University of Bristol)
Prof. James Porter (University of California, Berkeley)
Prof. Phiroze Vasunia (University College London)
Prof. Patrice Rankine (University of Chicago)
Dr Ella Haselswerdt (University of California, Los Angeles)
Prof. Sean Gurd (The University of Texas at Austin)
Dr Rebecca Kosick (University of Bristol)
Prof. Mario Telò (University of California, Berkeley)
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Edith Hall is Professor of Classics at the University of Durham and Consultant Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama in Oxford, UK. She has published more than thirty volumes on ancient Greek and Roman literature and their reception and has been a judge of the Stephen Spender prize for literary translation and the Society for Theatre Research Book of the Year.
Edith Hall is Professor of Classics at the University of Durham and Consultant Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama in Oxford, UK. Her books on ancient Greek culture and its reception include The Return of Ulysses (2008), Greek Tragedy (2010), Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris (2013) and Introducing the Ancient Greeks (2015).